Kathmandu, March 15
The 13th edition of the Nepal European Union Film Festival 2024 will kick off on March 20. With the theme “50 years of EU-Nepal Relations: Celebrating Cultural Diversity”, this year’s festival is part of a series of events to mark the 50th anniversary of EU-Nepal diplomatic relations.
According to a press statement by the European Union, the festival’s opening will occur at the CDC Cinemas, CTC Mall in Sundhara. It will continue until March 23 in the same venue. In the festival, nine European films and 11 Nepali short films will be screened.
It added that a short film competition for young Nepali filmmakers was organised to select films for the festival. The director of the winning film along with one other young director, who is yet to be selected by the EU Delegation to Nepal will be travelling to Brussels in autumn to participate in a mirror festival of
Nepali films. The 10 Nepali films for the festival were selected through a film competition.
The festival will travel to the Sudurpaschim province where screenings will continue in the hall of
the Far Western University on April 10 and April 11. The next destination will be Lumbini
province, where there will be screenings on April 15 followed by the Karnali Province where
screenings will take place on April 19 and April 20.
The Delegation of the European Union to Nepal is also organising a ‘Film Critics Competition’
which will culminate in the giving away of a ‘Film Critics Award’ for the best critic. The EU will
publish a call for entry for the film critics competition soon. The winner of the film critics
competition will also be able to travel to Brussels in autumn this year to participate in the mirror
festival of Nepali films.
